In remembrance of one man’s fight against discrimination, and the ruthless "special interests" of both Church and State, in the famed Dreyfus Scandal, which rocked France some one hundred years ago, I name these essays, which lay bare the various hypocrisies of our society, after the famed headlines in the Journal “L'Aurore” that began with: “J’accuse!”, I accuse!
As Zola knew, in fighting the vicious, the slanderer, the treacherous, the fanatical bigot and the cowardly pernicious, who hide in anonymity, there is but one way: exposure. In the light of truth, they shrivel back into the dark recesses from which they emerged. But unlike The Count of Monte Cristo3, I seek no revenge against individuals, but only knowledge of the insidious processes that have produced them, the hurt they cause others, their abundance in current society and the foul societies that produce so much misery through the disparity they build. And these essays bring them into the light of reason, and the cold facts of logic, where the obfuscation and confusion of their purposeful indirection, no longer hold their own.
Most of these essays I presented earlier in the Government, Resources and Society section of The Philosophy of the GOOD, and in the Series of Essays on Love. I have reintroduced them here, with new subtitles, as a more fitting place, as to their unity of purpose and style, and as they expose the effects of the vicious hypocrisies that are presently perverting our free societies. The last two essays are new ones written especially for this series.
As Zola did some hundred years ago, so I do now, in laying bare the hypocrisies of our present society...

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1
In 1898, in France, Alfred Dreyfus a Jewish Artillery Officer, was convicted on trumped up charges of espionage, and sent to Devil’s Island for life imprisonment. Emil Zola, the famed novelist, accused the Military High Command of Obstruction of Justice and anti-Semitism in an open letter to the President of France, in the Paris Newspaper “L’Aurore”; the headlines began with the dramatic line “J’accuse!”, "I accuse!".
The Dreyfus affair, as it was called, finally ended in complete vindication of Dreyfus, and changed the face of France, in that it paved the way for civil rights for all citizens, and separation of Church and State.
Unfortunately, the outcome for the intrepid Zola was not favorable. In 1902, four years after his famed headlines threw France into social turmoil, the author died of carbon monoxide poisoning, due to a stopped up chimney; which many still to this day say was a foul murder caused by his political enemies.

2
Although I often single out the United States of America in these essays, I feel that all "free" societies in the developed world, are also implied, since all have more or less followed America's lead; and also since the same religious institutions are involved, although, perhaps with not quite as much diversity as is shown in America.

3
This was the unfortunate sea Captain imprisoned in the Chateau d’If for life, through a conspiracy of slanderers, on whom he later revenged himself, as the Count of Monte Cristo. In Alexandre Dumas’ novel: “The Count of Monte Cristo”.